Thursday, 10 May 2012

The Blow are not my thoughts. I read this on a email fwd and I kind of agree with the facts that this email states. In India you cannot just come up with your own footsteps, you need few hands to help you....

WHY? is my question. I live outside India and I am proud to say that what ever I have earned let it be people, status and/or money is with my own deeds. I can say it proudly as I have worked hard for this....

Any way... there are loads of people who might disagree with me...

Read below...

ALL INDIANS MUST READ THIS

I would like to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one
sentence.Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but failed intheir own.

This outcome would have astonished leaders of our independence movement. Theydeclared Indians were kept down by white rule and could flourish only under
self-rule. This seemed self-evident The harsh reality today is that Indians aresucceeding brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing in India. Theyare flourishing in the USA and Britain.

But those that stay in India are pulled down by an outrageous system that fails
to reward merit or talent, fails to allow people and businesses to grow, andkeeps real power with netas, babus, and assorted manipulators. Once Indians goto white-ruled countries, they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by
whites.

Rono Dutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the world.Had he stayed in India, he would have no chance in Indian Airlines. Even if thetop job there was given to him by some godfather, a myriad netas, babus and
trade unionists would have ensured that he could never run it like UnitedAirlines.

Vikram Pundit has become head of Citigroup, which operates Citibank one of thelargest banks in the world.

Rana Talwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the biggest
multinational banks in Britain, while still in his 40s. Had he been in India, hewould perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking orders from babus togive loans to politically favoured clients.

Rajat Gupta is head of Mckinsey, the biggest management consultancy firm in the
world. He now advises the biggest multinationals on how to run their business.Had he remained in India he would probably be taking orders from some sethjiwith no qualification save that of being born in a rich family.

Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world, with steelplants in the US, Kazakhstan, Germany, Mexico, Trinidad and Indonesia. India'ssocialist policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector.
So Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family's first steel plant there.Once freed from the shackles of India, he conquered the world.

Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to beat
Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to India, whichdecreed a TV monopoly for Doordarshan. But technology came to his aid: satelliteTV made it possible for him to target India from Hong Kong. Once he escaped
Indian rules and soil, he soared.

You may not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communicationscompany, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $ 30billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world. Had he
remained in India, he would probably be a babu in the Department ofTelecommunications.

Arun Netravali has become president of Bell Labs, one of the biggest researchand development centres in the world with 30,000 inventions and several Nobel
Prizes to its credit. Had he been in India, he would probably be struggling inthe middle cadre of Indian Telephone Industries. Silicon Valley alone containsover 100,000 Indian millionaires.

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has become since 2006 the CEO Of PepsiCo Inc., a
Fortune 500 company.

Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million.VictorMenezes is number two in Citibank. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of Providian, a top USfinancial services company. Also at or near the top are Rakesh Gangwal of US
Air, Jamshd Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman Mehta of Hong Kong ShanghaiBanking Corp.

In Washington DC, the Indian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members,all high tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has stagnated. At
independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the bestprospects.

Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177th position among 209countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only or main problem.
India ranks near the bottom in the UNDP's Human Development Index, but high upin Transparency International's Corruption Index.

The neta-babu raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for India
's failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we inherited fromthe British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money, muscle and influence mattermost.

At independence we were justly proud of our politicians. Today we regard them as
scoundrels and criminals. They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name ofsocialism, and used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks.No influential crook suffers. The Mafia flourish unhindered because they have
political links.

The sons of police officers believe they have a licence to rape and kill (askthe Mattoo family).Talent cannot take you far amidst such rank mis-governance.

We are reverting to our ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the
powerful. The British Raj brought in abstract concepts of justice forall,equality before the law. These were maintained in the early years ofindependence. But sixty years later, citizens wail that India is a lawless land
where no rules are obeyed.

I have heard of an IAS probationer at the Mussorie training academy pointing outthat in India before the British came, making money and distributing favours torelatives was not considered a perversion of power, it was the very rationale of
power. A feudal official had a duty to enrich his family and caste.

Then the British came and imposed a new ethical code on officials. But, heasked, why should we continue to choose British customs over desi ones now that
we are independent?

The lack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why talentedIndians cannot rise in India. A second reason is the neta-babu raj, whichremains intact despite supposed liberalisation. But once talented Indians go to
rule-based societies in the west, they take off. In those societies all peopleplay by the same rules, all have freedom to innovate without being strangled byregulations.

This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by whites, and fail in
their own.